Ticket-punch



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J. .GILL'ESPUI TICKET PUNCH.

" No. 498,259. Patented May-30, 1893.

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JAMES GILLESPIE, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.v

TICKET-PUNCHI SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 498,259, datedMay 30,1893.

n Application filed March 21, 1892. Serial No. 425,679. (No model.)

T0 @ZZ whom it may concern: v

Be it known that i, JAMES GILLESPIE, of the city of Chicago, county of Cook, and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ticket-Manipulators, ot' which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to that style of manipulator which leaves a notch in the ticket and is generally used with the duplex formY of tickets.

The object of my invention is to produce first a destination cutter and limit punch combined by a simple and inexpensive means and second to produce a cutter which may be operated with papers of p any liber. I attain these objects by the means illustrated in the accompanying drawings in which- Figure l is a longitudinal section through the cutter and punch on the line a: a; of Fig. 2. Fig. 2 is a plan of the manipulator. Fig. 8 is an elevation of a modification of the cutter to be used with thin paper exclusively and Fig. 4 is a perspective of the same. Fig. 5 shows the elevation of a cutter for preserving the margin and Fig. 6 is a plan of the same.

Similar letters refertosimilar parts throughout the several views.

In the drawings A represents the bed" piece of the manipulator which may be fastened to any convenient place by screws passing through it. Upon the bed piece is fastened the standard F madefof brass or any other suitable material and fastened to the b'ed piece by means of screws. Through the sides of this standard passes the pivot pin b which also passes through the sides of the lever B thus making a pivot for said lever to move upon.

The lever B may be made of brass or any approved material and has at one end the cutting point C made of any shape desired. Below this cutting point and fastened to the bed piece A is the metal plate G which has in it the notch g exactly corresponding to the shape of the cutting point and directly below it. The sides of both the notch g and the cutting point C are so beveled that they form a cutting edge. Upon the lever B is placed the punch e fastened securely t0 said lever and placed directly below the die E in the top piece of the standard of the same shape, said punch and die 'forming a punch which may be operated by means of a pressure on the `rear end of the lever B thus pressing the die through any material which may bev placed between said die and hole. In the front of the side pieces of the standard F and directly below the top piece of said standard is cut the longitudinal slot D fully illustrated in the drawings by which means the ticket or other material may be placed in position for the use of the punch.

By this apparatus a ticket agent takes a common local destination ticket and lifting the cutting point C places the ticket upon the plate G with the number of the destination station below the cutter then with an upward pressure on the rear end of the lever cuts out the number opposite the required station leaving a notch on both parts of the ticket in place of the number of the station; then by means of the punch on the standard limits andclassies the ticket as maybe desired. Thus by the use of one instrument he is enabled to make all indications necessary to a local destination railroad ticket.

Figs. 3 and 4. represent a modication of the cutter of said instrument. In this modification the cutting point C rests perfectly iiat on the plate G which has no notch in it. The sides ofsaid cutter being beveled upward the same as in the cutter C leave a sharp edge on it at the lower face or where the cutter comes in contact with the plate G. In cutting the notch in a local destination railroad ticket with this cutter the point is lifted and the number opposite the name of the station of destination is placed below it on the plate G. The cutting point then being pressed upon the ticket said ticket is lifted and drawn toward the point and the sharp edges of the cutter cut out or tear out the required number or mark. This is fully illustrated by Figs. 3 and 4.

Figs. 5 and 6 represent another modification of a cutting point by which meansv the margin edge of a ticket may be preserved. In this modification the cutting point Q2 has on it a projection c which lits into and forms a cutting edge with a hole g in the plate G2. Back of this projection is the projection c which acts as a stop when a ticket is placed under the point. The ticket being placed ICO against the projection c with the proper station number below the point, said point is then pressed upon it and the projection c cuts the number out of said ticket leaving the margin equal in width to the distance between the two projections c c.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A combined ticket punch and cutter comprising a lever pivoted to a suitable base, said lever carrying a cutter at its front end for mutilating a ticket and also a male die intermediate its ends between the cutter and its fulcrum, in combination with a bracket also secured t0 the base the latter being provided with a female die, the male and female -dies forming a ticket punch substantially as described.

2. A ticket punch composed of a level', a fulcrum upon which said lever moves, a. standard supporting said fulcrum which standard is fastened to a suitable base, a cutter at the front end of said lever and between said cutter and the fulcrum of said lever a male and female die forming a punch and placed respectively on the lever and the standard all substantially as set forth.

3. In a ticket punch the combination of the lever B, the fulcrum b upon which said lever moves, the standard F resting on a base and supporting said fulcrum and. the cutter O at the front extremity of said lever all substantially as described.

JAMES GILLESPIE. Vitnesses:

FRED W. HERSEY, EDWIN G. LANCASTER. 

